During a speech at the National Sheriff's Association winter conference Monday morning, America's first Confederate Attorney General Jeff Sessions accidentally (or maybe not so accidentally) admitted out loud what the black community has been saying for decades (centuries?): ...read more
After yet another killer cop was found not guilty of murdering an unarmed black man and planting a gun on his body, the people of St. Louis took to the streets in protest. They remained generally peaceful until sundown when the bulk of the protesters went home and a few remained ...read more
This has to be the single greatest quote from a Nazi since "Ich gebe auf": “I have never felt like the government or police were against me,” said white nationalist leader Richard Spencer at a small press conference inside his home in Alexandria, Virginia, on Monday afternoon. ...read more
Lt. Tim McMillan pulled over a young, black man for texting while driving on the last day of September. This story, unlike many that make the media, doesn't end in that young man's death or a wild video with "he said/she said" type stories from the police and the subject of ...read more
From what we understand so far, two or more snipers at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas shot eleven police officers. Four of those officers have died, two of them are in surgery, and three are in critical condition. According to a statement from Dallas Police Chief David ...read more
Let’s just come right out and say it immediately: If you’re someone who values innocent life, someone who is outraged by the killing of two black men by police officers who appeared to break their oath to protect and serve, you’re hopefully equally outraged by the wanton shooting ...read more
by Ari Rutenberg With almost weekly reports of unnecessary shootings, it is obvious there are some big problems with the police in America. One of the biggest problems is the police's perception of what the public think of them. With public outrage reaching boiling point, the ...read more
A few weeks ago, Detroit resident and openly black motorist John Felton was pulled over by a Dayton, Ohio police officer after Fenton allegedly committed the suspicious act of making "direct eye contact" with the officer. Fenton posted the video on Facebook on August 15, where ...read more
Being black in Ohio apparently means you can get shot in the head for attempting to drive away from a police officer, or pulled over for the egregious crime of making perceived eye contact with an officer. John Felton, a former resident of Ohio, was pulled over by Dayton police ...read more
The right wing media has attempted to cast the #blacklivesmatter campaign as a liberal conspiracy masking the true nature of black unrest in America. According to the likes of Rich Lowry and other right wing media shills, the attention paid to police brutality and shootings of ...read more
by Aaron Cantú At this point, it's hard to be surprised by the extreme punitiveness of America's criminal justice system. One thing that can still shock, though, is how police manhandle actual children. Not only is treatment of children severe (police in Arizona recently mulled ...read more
by Terrell Jermaine Starr We’ve learned a lot about policing in Baltimore since the six police officers involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest were charged in connection to his death. One of the so-called Baltimore Six has a highly questionable history of abusing his authority; ...read more
Single mother Toya Graham of Baltimore, Md. has become an ostensibly heroic figure in the wake of the unrest over the death of Freddie Gray. Dubbed "Mom of the Year" by social media denizens and praised by Baltimore's police chief as the exemplar of inner-city motherdom, Graham ...read more
Patrick Perion is a child abuse investigator in the Mid West In the ongoing unrest and rioting in Baltimore and the media coverage of it, several narratives have emerged. The one that is getting all kinds of play is the "Mom in Yellow", Toya Graham. People from the Police ...read more
In the wake of the disastrous rioting and looting that hit Ferguson last week after Officer Darren Wilson was exonerated for Mike Brown's death, much attention has been paid to the speed with which protesters turned to violence. But less attention has been paid to the speed with ...read more
For several weeks now, the nation's attention has been focused on Ferguson, Mo., and in particular, the militarized response of police to mostly-peaceful protests of the killing of 18 year-old Mike Brown. On Wednesday, a considerably less-tragic reminder of overboard police ...read more
Most of us are capable of interacting with other human beings without threatening to murder them, but most of us are also not cops deployed in Ferguson, Mo. On Tuesday, citizen journalist Rebelutionary_Z and compatriots were confronted by this John McClane wannabe, who pointed a ...read more
Whenever a crisis involving police brutality against black people arises in America, you can be sure that an old white Republican will weigh in on the situation with something so transparently racist and insensitive that it's hard to believe we are living in the 21st century. ...read more
The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is both heartbreaking and reprehensible. Another young man, 18 years old, whose potential and impact on the world was cut tragically short in an instant. Subsequently the response by the St. Louis County Police to the ...read more
As we notedbefore, we can't help but to contrast law enforcement's reaction to protesters in Ferguson, Missouri versus law enforcement's reaction during the Bundy Ranch fiasco. 1) The Bundy Ranch: On one hand, a large group of armed white men marched in a line of battle while at ...read more
(Image via didierruef.com) With the killing of yet another unarmed black man by the police, America is in dire need of some serious self reflection. While slavery and the fight for equal civil rights is over from a legal point of view, systemic racism and violence towards black ...read more
In a very bizarre scene caught on camera, a California firefighter was put in handcuffs by a California Highway Patrol officer (CHP) and detained at the scene of a highway accident over the positioning of his fire truck. The yet to be identified firefighter from Chula Vista ...read more
I have seen a lot of things, both in real life and on the internet. But I have never seen a police officer arrest someone for being under the influence of drugs/alcohol, then get arrested himself for being drunk. Last April, Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) Andrew Seston ...read more
Racial Profiling is often dismissed as a myth by the right-wing. In this video, secret recordings are taken to show the reality of how the police use their 'stop and search' powers. ...read more
It was a normal day. Courtney had left work and was picking up her husband. Being the parents of two adolescent boys, they were expected and needed at home. As she waited for Russell, her husband, a police officer drove by and gave her a double look. He drove by a second time ...read more
The tragic shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman back in 2012 had all the ingredients to spark off another epic race debate in America. An unarmed young black man shot by an older white/hispanic man in highly suspicious circumstances is the stuff the news media lives ...read more
The coolest job I ever had I got at the very young age of 14. It was the coolest job any 14-year-old should be allowed to have, the coolest job anybody should be allowed to have, period. When I was 14, a friend of my family's got me part-time summer work at the Broward County ...read more
Warning to all black children in America: Don't stare at the police. If you do, you'll get slammed on the floor and choked by a 200lb + officer. From the Miami New Times: Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillian didn't threaten police. He didn't attack them. He wasn't armed. All ...read more
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a man selling shrimp on the side of the road had his sign stolen by a man in passing truck. Taking matters into his own hands, the shrimp seller jumped on the hood of the truck and the driver took off down the freeway with him on it. A car passing by ...read more
UPDATE 3: Buzzfeed has found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's actual twitter account. Some screenshots from the google cached version: Two days after the bombing: And one day after the bombing: UPDATE 2: From the Guardian: An uncle of the suspects, Ruslan Tsarni, has given a TV ...read more
The mayor of the city where Trayvon Martin was killed says he overruled police and prosecutors who opposed the release of tapes of 911 calls, telling them: “We're not here to hide anything.” Jeff Triplett, who is a senior vice president at United Legacy Bank and part-time ...read more
It may not seem like a big deal - throwing away the books of a bunch of hippies - but the NYPD's mindless destruction of the makeshift OWS library in Zuccoti park is a symbol of what has happened to America. The militarization of domestic policing in the US after 9/11 is having ...read more
While many people believe the police have not come down on rioters hard enough, this video below shows police in Manchester beating a group of alleged rioters without provocation: We don't really know the context of the assault above, but the police should only resort to force ...read more
Vice Magazine has done a great report on the first wave of violence on the streets of London. The footage below shows youths openly confronting the police, attacking them with weapons and smashing up their cars: How long it takes before relations are repaired between the younger ...read more
